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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 28: (search)
large party lunched together, after which Grant made way for Hayes. Grant had done all that was proper in his position to assist in the election of Hayes, and very much indeed to facilitate his installation, and Hayes appreciated this course. A few days after the 4th of March, the new President invited Grant to say if there were any personal friends in office whom he would like to have retained. Grant named about half a dozen, among them his brother-in-law, Mr. Cramer, the Minister to Denmark. My own name as Consul-General at London was also mentioned. These requests Mr. Hayes religiously observed, though in my case, at least, great pressure was brought to induce him to break his pledge. My place was wanted by two Cabinet Ministers for their own friends, and was actually offered to Chester A. Arthur, then collector at New York, by Sherman, the Secretary of the Treasury. Arthur declined it, and I never heard that Sherman's offer was authorized by Hayes. Mr. Sherman, however,
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 37: (search)
y, Conkling should have been consulted; and Merritt, the friend and appointee of Sherman, was ousted to make room for Robertson. I was removed from London in favor of Merritt; General Grant's brother-in-law, Mr. Cramer, the Charge d'affaires at Denmark, was displaced for me, and Mr. Nicholas Fish, the son of Grant's Secretary of State, was removed from the position of Charge at Berne to make room for Cramer. Merritt, Cramer, and I were each placed where we had no desire to be, and Fish lost hd place. Advise with Conkling and Platt. It would be better to come here without Government appointment than to take Copenhagen. My relatives and personal friends gave me different advice and thought I would do better to accept the mission to Denmark; but I considered myself bound to defer to General Grant, and finally requested the President to withdraw my nomination as Charge to Copenhagen. This he did, but offered me no other appointment, and he did not recall that of Merritt, so that i